What Is Web Hosting? A Beginner's Guide for Bangladesh

Web hosting is a service that keeps your website's files on a server, a computer that stays connected to the internet day and night, so anyone can open your site at any time. You rent space and computing power on that server, usually by the month or year, instead of running a machine yourself. Without hosting, a website has nowhere to live.

You do not need a technical background to buy it. You do need to know what the words on a plan page mean, or you end up paying for too much or stuck with too little. This guide starts from the beginning.

What is the difference between a domain and hosting?

A domain is your address. Hosting is the shop. yourshop.com.bd tells people where to go, and the hosting is the shop they walk into, with your stock on the shelves. An address with no shop leads nowhere, and a shop with no address is hard to find. Most websites need both.

You can buy the two from one company or from two. A .com.bd costs ৳805 to register. To understand how these names work, read what a .bd domain is, or see whether your name is free with domain search.

What do you actually buy with a hosting plan?

A hosting plan is a portion of a server with a set of limits. These are the words you will see on almost any plan page:

To make that concrete, our Go plan lists 1 GB NVMe of storage, 100 GB of bandwidth and 0.5 GB of memory.

How does a web page reach a visitor?

Say a customer in Mirpur taps a link to yourshop.com.bd in a Facebook post. Here is what happens next:

1. The name gets looked up. Her phone asks DNS, the internet's address book, which server holds that domain.
2. Her phone contacts the server. The request travels over her mobile operator's or ISP's network to wherever your server sits. This is the step that server location affects.
3. The server prepares the page. A plain page simply gets sent. A WordPress page gets built on the spot from your database, and this is where CPU and memory go.
4. The files travel back. The page code, photos and styles come down to her phone. This is what bandwidth counts.
5. The browser puts it together. Extras such as a Facebook pixel or chat widget load separately from their own servers.

So three things decide how quickly she sees your shop: how far away the server is, how busy it is, and how heavy your page is. If your customers are in Bangladesh, a server here on a local route helps with the first one. That is the whole point of BDIX hosting.

Do you need hosting if you have a Facebook page?

Not to sell on Facebook. A clothing shop can run on a page and Messenger for years. You want hosting when you want a place of your own: an address customers can remember and type, a catalogue that turns up on Google, an order form that keeps working when a platform changes its rules.

A school is a good example. Notices and results need to be somewhere parents can read them without an account. And a news portal cannot exist without its own site.

What types of web hosting are there?

• Web Hosting (shared). Many sites share one server. This is enough for most new sites.
• Turbo Hosting. More CPU and memory, with unmetered bandwidth. For busy sites and online shops.
• VPS Hosting. Your own virtual server. For when you need special software or your own server setup.

Start small and move up when you need to. The full comparison is in Web vs Turbo vs VPS hosting.

What should you check before buying hosting?

These questions apply to every host, including us. Ask them before you pay.

• Where is the server? The closer to your visitors, the better.
• What does it cost at renewal? An opening offer and the renewal price may differ. Get the renewal figure first.
• How can you pay? Check whether it is billed in taka, whether bKash or Nagad work, or whether you need a dollar card.
• Who answers when something breaks? Ask about hours, language, and whether there is a phone number or only tickets. Try them once before you buy.
• How do backups work? Ask how often they run, where they are kept, who restores them and whether it costs extra. Keep a copy of your own as well.
• How do you get SSL? SSL is what puts https in your address, and browsers warn visitors without it. Ask how it is set up and whether there is a charge.
• What does "unlimited" mean? Ask for the real limits, and what happens when you pass them: does the site slow down, cost more or get suspended?
• What does the control panel look like? You will run your site and email from it, so see it before you commit.
• Can you leave? Make sure you can download your files and database, and that the domain is in your name.

How buying hosting works at get.bd

1. Pick a plan. Web Hosting starts from ৳199 a month.
2. Sort out the domain: register a new one, transfer one, or keep an existing domain and update its name servers. .bd extensions are in the same checkout.
3. Pay in taka by bKash, Nagad, bank transfer or card, with no dollar card needed. Every plan can be paid monthly, yearly or every two years; other cycles vary by plan.
4. Run your domain and hosting from one client area at my.get.bd.

Our answers to the questions above: Web and Turbo plans include cPanel, free SSL, daily backups, LiteSpeed and free migration, and VPS plans come with full root access. No plan has a setup fee, and Web Hosting comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

All plans run from get.bd's datacenter in Dhaka and are BDIX connected. If you get stuck, support is there 24/7 in Bengali and English by phone, WhatsApp and ticket. If your domain lives somewhere else, read how to point a .bd domain to your hosting.